Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first Dartboard was pleased with the snazzy-looking new iMacs that have proliferated like so many hothouse orchids on campus. It turns out a splash of royal purple was just what Loker Commons needed, and the cherry red monitors lined up in the Science Center add a touch of brightness to that dreary trek to our Science B core. Annoying commercials aside (how dare they use Gandhi and Einstein for advertising, let alone Lucille Ball), the computers themselves seemed like...
...hand there's Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...
...touch with him when he's ready," she said. "He has indicated to each of us how he wants to proceed on the various things that the office is working on. I feel that things will go pretty smoothly...
...Fineberg] has indicated that depending on how he's doing, he'll be in touch with us in a short time period, through telephone or computer," she said...
...tribute to the movies of her father Vincente, director of such classic Hollywood musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch before (like The Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis) and demonstrates that her voice, if not the exuberant, no-holds-barred instrument it once was, can still curl stylishly around numbers like I Got Rhythm and Baubles, Bangles and Beads. A little nostalgia, a little Broadway pizazz, a little...